Posted on 09/13/2026 4:59:13 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sep 13th, 2026
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Utah Gov. Spencer Cox; democrat socialist candidate for Michigan Senator Abdul El-Sayed; new polling with Anthony Salvanto.
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett; Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R), Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R), North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein (D) and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D); democrat then independent then Republican “activist” Lindy Li. Panel: Mollie Hemingway, Philip Wegmann and Juan Williams.
MEET THE dePRESS (NBC): Hosted by Kristen Welker: Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson (R-LA); Former Biden Sec Transportation Pete Buttigieg; Jacob Coxon, Anthropic “whistleblower” (who was not a top scientist and only worked there four months). (MSDNC) Panel: Ashley Etienne, Jonathan Martin and Marc Short—EVERY one of these easily forgotten angry Leftists slinging anti-American balderdash are featured on MSNBC/Now!
THIS WEEK (ABC): Hosted by Little Georgie Steponallofus (or is it Martha Raddish?): House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries; Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.); Jacob Coxon, Anthropic “whistleblower” (who was not a top scientist and only worked there four months); Martha Raddatz interviews Army Sgt. First Class Steve Workman and Lt. Kevin Shaeffer, who were injured and rescued each other in the 9/11 Pentagon attack. Panel: Donna BrazileNut, Chris Christie, Ramesh Ponnuru and Astead Herndon —the same Ugly, shameless, Left-wing Propagandists and Fat RINOs!
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Anchored by Jake Toe-Tapper (or is it Dana Bash?): Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson (R-LA); (Swallwell co-conspirator and tag-teamer) Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.); National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett. Panel: Rep. Scott Jennings, Shermichael Singleton, Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow and Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.)—EXCEPT for Scott Jennings, Tapper’s totally and toxically biased group of democrap talking points parrots!
SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): The Show to watch? NOT Hosted by Maria Bartiromo: Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas); Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.); Rep. Laurel Lee (R-Fla.); Steve Yates, Senior Research Fellow at the Federalist Society, Heritage Center.
From my AI discussion:
BUTCHER’S THUMB – Sunday, September 13th, 2026
(Hybrid Format)
General Mood
The networks are drifting even deeper into election‑season autopilot — the same panels, the same narratives, the same “democracy framing,” and the same parade of Republicans chosen specifically because they’ll criticize Trump. Meanwhile, the world is moving fast in ways the shows won’t touch. Iran is escalating again, gas prices are rising, the Houthis are hitting energy infrastructure, and the RNC midterm convention is revealing real political shifts. And yet the Sunday lineup pretends the only story in America is November.
This week’s guest lists are weak. The real stories are happening elsewhere.
What’s Not Being Covered
#1 — Iran’s New Attacks
Iran has launched fresh strikes and escalatory actions across the region — a regime lashing out as its influence erodes. This is a real geopolitical story with real consequences, but the Sunday shows won’t touch it. It doesn’t fit their election‑season script, and it doesn’t help the narratives they’re trying to build.
#2 — Gas Prices Rising
Gas prices are climbing again, driven by global instability and energy‑sector sabotage. Instead of explaining the real causes, the networks will reduce it to “voter concerns” and “economic messaging.” Anything that requires connecting foreign events to domestic pain gets quietly ignored.
#3 — Houthis Take Territory and Bomb the Saudi Bypass Pipeline
The Houthis have seized new territory and struck a Saudi pipeline — and not just any pipeline, but the very overland route the Saudis were using to bypass Gulf shipping and avoid the danger of the Strait of Hormuz. In other words, the Houthis didn’t just hit infrastructure; they hit the workaround. They struck the alternative path the Saudis built specifically to escape Iranian choke‑points. That’s a major strategic escalation with global energy implications. Yet the Sunday shows won’t touch it. It’s too complex, too foreign, and far too inconvenient for their election‑only framing.
#4 — The RNC Midterm Convention
The RNC’s midterm convention is underway, revealing real strategic shifts inside the party. But the networks won’t cover it honestly. They’ll cherry‑pick a quote or two, ignore the substance, and return to their preferred framing. Anything that shows Republicans organizing, planning, or gaining momentum gets buried.
#5 — The Doxing of the Clancy Jury Holdout
The Clancy case took a darker turn when the jury holdout was doxed — a disturbing escalation that raises serious questions about intimidation, privacy, and the ability of jurors to serve without fear. This should be a major story. Instead, the networks pretend it didn’t happen. It’s too raw, too revealing, and too inconvenient.
Show‑by‑Show Breakdown
CBS – Face the Nation (Margaret Brennan)
Brennan brings on Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, Michigan socialist Senate candidate Abdul El‑Sayed, and polling analyst Anthony Salvanto. It’s a safe, predictable lineup designed to reinforce the election narrative. No mention of Iran’s attacks. No mention of rising gas prices. No mention of the Houthis. No mention of the RNC convention. And absolutely no mention of the Clancy doxing.
Verdict: Procedural, cautious, and incomplete.
Fox News Sunday (Shannon Bream)
Kevin Hassett appears to discuss the economy, followed by a governor roundtable featuring Kevin Stitt, Phil Scott, Josh Stein, and Wes Moore. Lindy Li shows up to provide her usual shapeshifting commentary. The panel — Hemingway, Wegmann, and Juan Williams — will offer some substance, but the deeper stories will still be missing. Iran’s attacks and the Houthi pipeline strike might get a passing mention, but not the broader implications. The Clancy doxing will likely be ignored.
Verdict: Some substance, but not the full picture.
NBC – Meet the Press (Kristen Welker)
Welker hosts Speaker Mike Johnson, Pete Buttigieg, and Jacob Coxon — the “whistleblower” who worked at Anthropic for four months and is now being paraded around to prove “AI Bad! Data Centers Bad! Run for your lives!” The panel is the usual MSNBC‑adjacent lineup. NBC will focus entirely on election framing and AI panic. Iran’s attacks won’t be mentioned. Gas prices won’t be connected to global instability. The RNC convention will be treated as background noise. And the Clancy doxing will be ignored.
Verdict: Domestic politics only; inconvenient stories ignored.
ABC – This Week (George Stephanopoulos / Martha Raddatz)
Hakeem Jeffries, Mike Lawler, and Jacob Coxon headline the show, followed by a 9/11 Pentagon rescue segment with Sgt. Workman and Lt. Shaeffer. The panel — Brazile, Christie, Ponnuru, and Herndon — will recycle the same election narratives as every other week. Iran’s attacks won’t be covered. Gas prices won’t be explained. The Houthis won’t exist. The RNC convention will be reduced to a single quote. And the Clancy doxing will be ignored.
Verdict: Narrative maintenance, not news.
CNN – State of the Union (Jake Tapper)
Tapper hosts Speaker Mike Johnson, Ruben Gallego, and Kevin Hassett. The panel is the usual mix, with Scott Jennings as the lone non‑Democratic voice. CNN will frame everything through election politics. Iran’s attacks won’t be covered unless they can be tied to domestic messaging. Gas prices will be discussed without any mention of the global causes. The Houthis won’t be mentioned. The RNC convention will be framed as “Republicans in disarray.” And the Clancy doxing will be ignored.
Verdict: Predictable framing, zero curiosity.
Fox – Sunday Morning Futures (NOT Maria Bartiromo)
Beth Van Duyne, Rick Crawford, Laurel Lee, and Steve Yates appear — but without Maria, the show loses its edge. If any show mentions Iran’s attacks, the Houthis, or the RNC convention’s deeper meaning, it might be this one. But without Bartiromo, even this show feels constrained.
Verdict: Still the closest thing to actual coverage — but weakened without Maria.
Closing Cut
This week’s real story isn’t on the guest lists. It’s in the quiet moves happening off‑camera:
Iran escalating again.
Gas prices rising for reasons the networks won’t explain.
Houthis striking the very pipeline the Saudis built to escape Gulf shipping.
The RNC convention revealing strategic shifts.
And a juror doxed in a case the media pretends doesn’t exist.
The networks won’t cover these stories. The Thumb will.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM NBC's "Meet the Press"
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ABC's "This Week"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM "Fox News Sunday"
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM CNN's "State of the Union"
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM CBS's "Face The Nation"
Listen at the link above WHILE you FReep! Also, Sharyl Attkinson’s Full Measure: Watch live at 9:30 EST.
Finally, each show has a YouTube presence, and you can easily watch them on YouTube any time after their live run!
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Next, here are the email addresses and Twitter/X pages--for commenting to the weekend talk shows:
Email: Meet the Press Meet the Press mailbox (web page for comments) Twitter/X: @MeetThePress @kwelkernbc
Email: Face the Nation facethenation@cbsnews.com Twitter/X: @FaceTheNation
Email: Fox News Sunday FNS@foxnews.com Twitter/X: @foxnewssunday
Email: ABC This Week thisweek@abc.com Twitter/X: @ThisWeekABC @GStephanopoulos
Email: CNN State of the Union CNN State of the Union (web page for comments) Twitter/X: @CNNSotu @JakeTapper
Email: Sunday Morning Futures Maria@FoxBusiness.com Twitter/X: @MariaBartiromo
“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!
Peter 3:8 (King James Version)
Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
There is nearly a one-to-one ratio between Presidential likeability and gas prices since it is the one thing the average person knows about economics. If it costs them more than $50 to fill their tank, they are upset and if it is $30, they are happy. It only makes sense since it is the easiest to see and track and has such a direct affect although not like people sacrificing in WWII with food rations and tens of thousands of deaths.
The mediots and their Party is tying it to the Iran war/blockade but there are far bigger problems affecting the prices than the price of oil. The closing of the two refineries in California as well as Gasbag Newsome shutting down drilling off its shore as well as Bakersfield oilfields is hurting America’s production and $8/gal diesel in Los Angeles is not going to change his mind. He thinks he can convince Californians that high priced gas is for their own good and a large percentage agree.
These refineries should be running full speed with cheap high-quality California oil to bring their prices down in the $4-5 range, but they would rather worship Gaia than feed their families. They have made it impossible to drive trucks in the state due to their CO2 laws, so everything is more expensive and especially food produced in that state since producing and transporting food is excessively high. This does not even count the water restrictions which drives food prices to the moon. Ain’t the Democrat Socialist Party wonderful.
President Trump has done everything he can to increase production by eliminating all of Biden’s drilling restrictions in the Gulf, Alaska, and Federal lands for fracking. The scrapping the XL pipeline would be bringing a good percentage of Iranian production, but American Socialists hate oil, so he cancelled it and Canada diverted it to China. Trump is restarting that pipeline but does not help today.
It is the same old story Dims cause the problems and then run on fixing the problems they caused with solutions which will make the problems worse. Gasbag claimed to solve the gas and oil problem by shutting down oil and refining production to supposedly worship the Earth by stopping the earth changing worldwide temperature by making CO2 a villain gas. If the earth was getting warmer why has West Coast summers become shorter and cooler? It sits on the edge of the largest ocean on the planet which should be a very large sample of the earth’s temperature, and it is not suffering.
To make matters worse Blue States like CA have outlawed gas cars, Natural Gas stoves and heat, and gas, coal, and nuclear power plants and are supposed to power cars with windmills and solar panels. They have eliminated drilling for oil, mining coal, refining oil and when gas prices goes up it is Trump’s fault for blockading Iran.
Iran should have been taken care of ten to twenty years ago, but every President were terrified to go to war with them. They rightly saw a war like Iraq only twice as hard from them being the most powerful army in the Middle East and having another ten-year war ending in stalemate. They did not consider an air war with a blockade which would have no troops or citizen casualties, which are total is only 13 at the start and those manning stations outside the country. It is actually a brilliant method of defeating them although it takes time which plays into the Old Media narrative of endless wars.
This blockade is just like the rest of Trump’s long term oil production. When Venezuela and Iran are producing their capabilities as well as the finished pipelines and a large refinery being built in Texas there will be plenty of production for America and the world but does not help today.
President Trump could have sat back and let Iran continue to terrorize the world while perhaps making a bomb and already had a rocket that could fly 3500 miles they could deliver to Europe and eventually America. Gas would stay low and he would be the hero until they successfully hit a major city and would be blamed for not stopping them. He chose stopping them and has done a stellar job except it is costing Americans higher priced gas which is a relatively small sacrifice considering the risks of letting them alone.
President Trump had no real good choices and took the best one and hoped they would be rational for once and was wrong. Most Americans understand this and especially conservatives who know Iran was the center of terrorism and is now a toothless lion thanks to Trump. Keep your backbone, President.
Pray for the Iranian People
Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.
I'm hoping that there is some sort of nationwide revulsion and reaction to the verdict itself; 11 crazy people voted to put that killer back on the street. We must be somewhere near bottom on our cultural decay.
And when will the media types start each election interview with a female candidate with, "Is Lindsay Clancy guilty?" If not, the whole thing will go into the dustbin next to the OJ verdict.
One story I thought was relevant was the in-depth look at 911 which showed 11 perps from Saudi Arabia which is true and was a huge problem.
The suggestion of course that we go after the Saudis for what they did during 911 is hard to disagree with. Of course there are intervening problems today such as Iran. If we don't get out of Iran and sooner or sooner it will soon threaten the 2028 elections.
It's already got a pretty big hold on 2026 and appears it will have some costs to us if our side does not come out in big enough numbers.
The media is slick enough to ignore 20 million illegals crossing the border and all the madness and mayhem that the Obiden regime brought. Inflation gone wild crazy spending and all the rest that was typical of demoncrats in office.
None of that will be mentioned only "Trumps fav. war" and the current gas prices.
We don't need Saudi interference added in.Here's why.
The Problem with going after the Saudis now is that we can't solve Iran without Saudi Arabian help.
They are the key to also getting help from UAE,Oman,and a dozen other countries. We need a bunch of mid-east countries that are all effected by Iran to take over sooner or sooner. It all begins with the Saudis.
Trump has an excellent relationship with MBS their leader and has had so many great feats already we don't need any other problems.
It's likely the way we nuked Venezuela with weaponry others can only dream of was possibly done by Israel.
Several years ago the Saudis paid Israel at least two billion to create weaponry similar to what we used in Venezuela. Without it we would still be struggling with Cuba,Venezuela and it would be even worse with Iran.
With it we see how easy it was to take out Maduro. This is possibly from the Saudis willing to pony up the money to get Israel to make the weaponry.Just a guess. I won't go into the rest it's equally as significant.
So that was not mentioned this week and personally I'm glad it wasn't. It was 25 years ago and another world apart from the one we live in today.
To make matters worse Blue States like CA have outlawed gas cars, Natural Gas stoves and heat, and gas, coal, and nuclear power plants and are supposed to power cars with windmills and solar panels. They have eliminated drilling for oil, mining coal, refining oil and when gas prices goes up it is Trump's fault for blockading Iran.
they have possibly one hope its called new California:
https://www.newcaliforniacoalition.org/ It's time for a change
The California Dream Is Slipping Away
below from the link:
The building blocks of life and prosperity here in California – from housing to water to jobs and safety – are becoming less and less attainable by the year.
California is at an inflection point and it's time for a change. Despite a booming tech industry that is generating the biggest state budget surpluses in history, everyday Californians are finding it harder and harder to get by.
Whether in the form of soaring housing and rent costs, or the exploding homelessness crisis, spiraling property crime, and devastating effects of out of control fire and drought; our beautiful and cherished state is becoming unlivable for the middle and working class.
Meanwhile, the boom fueling this state's juggernaut economy balances on a knife's edge, with more and more businesses headed for the exits.
Yet these are all solvable problems compared with the drain of our biggest resource:
hope.
From the first 49ers who came to California with dreams of gold, to burgeoning stars drawn to Hollywood in search of fame, the essence of California is the hope and opportunity it has represented for generations of dreamers. From farmers to scientists, mountaineers to entertainers and everyone in between – California is defined by its ability to turn hope into reality.
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Their story is truly amazing over a dozen people have been killed for trying to get the new state moving along. Following every rule their is. Brave person after person has had amazing accidents which all suggest the fix to destroy anyone who dares to right the wrongs of the dirty dems who are currently destroying California is in.
Love the “Thumb” and how it breaks things down to the common sense mode of what will happen. You can be sure Brennan won’t challenge a single one of El-Sayed’s lies since they will all conform to the lefts worldview, let alone if she did then he might as well remain mute. Does Maria’s old show have a weaker than normal lineup or is it just me? As for the Clancy mistrial there are so many things that just scream out, but the look on her face and reaction by Gayle King when it was revealed the lone holdout male was.....gulp....Black! PRICELESS!But that aside the interviews given by those AWFL jurists was astonishing, here I thought an impaneled jury was not supposed to be biased. And yet it was revealed there were 8 going into the trial who already had their minds made up and actually advocated for Clancy during deliberations and were able to eventually sway 3 of the 4 holdouts. I guess this is what passes as a fair trial in the NE part of the country.
Maria has good legal representation. Let's hope she's able to break the contract that has her getting paid yet off the air until her contract ends in 2029.
Hats the nasty game the Murdocks are playing with her. .........................
Shannon up next.
Saudis say Iranian proxies in Iraq are behind the destruction of their pipeline that was funneling five million barrels per day across the land to water avoiding the straits.
The pipeline is now shut down.
Trey Yingst up now. Vessel struck this morning by Iran or its lackeys.US has air superiority. Prime targets of the navy are now becoming the air craft carriers some 1,000 feet long.
carriers are surrounded by other ships that protect the carrier.
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Alex Hogan,super fox,now up she says AI is getting more and more controversial. Zero running his mouth on AI as well.Trump in Ireland. Trump says investment in the US is over 20 trillion,an amazing number.
Kevin Hasset up next shannon now saying AI will take over the internet,some guy named Dario claiming it.Ai is advancing rapidly but so are the defenses of its possible problems.
Bottom line if we slow down with AI china wins,we need to compete with china or be ruled by them which is what they want.
we added 162,000 jobs 4.1 unemployment presidents numbers waaay down accd. to driveby media numbers.Dems are mad we are so successful even with the war in Iran dragging us down.
Hassett says yale experts say economic out put should trump other problems in the election.
shannon calling for and increase by the fed of interest rates.
Governors for a bi-partisan chat with shannon. Phil Scott rep says states need to stay out of the way of big govt.and vice versa.
Josh Stein NC govt. insinuating Trump is a king (no kings).Kevin Stitt ok=r no one size fits all for states,Wes Moore dem md. we are all different,relationship should not be subservient. He says states need primary authority on some things suggesting elections of course. He says immigration is broken and has been for decades. He says immigration is different for every state.
Now pretending to be conservative when he's a dem. He wants more state power for sure.
nc gov. says biden was a disaster on immigration.he says we are getting illegals out of the state.
Most governors don't want the feds doing anything in their states.
nc dem gov. says energy is too high in NC he says data centers have to bring their own power or water. Phil Scott Vermont govt. rep. says we need protection from AI. no one understands AI so its regulations will always be a disaster.
The Houtis are the same thing as Iranians. You know they are funded and supplied. There is a guy reporting there is a civil war beginning in Iran near the Pakistan border. Maybe it is starting to change.
This week: Democrat useful idiots falling over each other to kneecap American AI and support China. Guardrails by China? Are these people braindead?
Yes, they were from Saudi Arabia. Were they instruments of the Saudi government should be the real question.
Bin Laden was in exile and under a death sentence from the Saudi govt. That’s why he stood up Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
After 9/11, we demanded Taliban-run Afghanistan to give him up. They wouldn’t so we went in and destroyed them.
The Pakistani’s were hiding Bin Laden all along. Did we do anything to their govt? Nope.
Bigger question about AI is will they run things without humans.No one knows.
(or is talking) Those who don't like AI are usually dems says molly Hemingway. Juan says its personal if a bio-weapon is created by AI actually a good statement,finally.
next mike rogers against el sayed in Michigan shannons show,fast moving, little league compared to what Maria did. mike rogers working football crowd el sayed somewhere else. sayed says abolish ice,he wears only a brown tee shirt hardly serious about being elected. Juan down on Trump again....economy inflation high gas the war,molly says el sayed is radical---duhhhhh..Im shocked!! paxton is a super lousy candidate, no chariama at all, no telling if enough money will pull his ass out of the fire. Molly suggesting that bush still has a lot of control in certain areas of Texas.
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shannon claiming no one would deFEnd biden except Lindy Ii she said biden could set aside and let kamal. she wrote a book that got her kicked out of the party. she was a high up fund raiser which is everything in the dem party, she dared to say biden was a dud and got slammed.she was a hardcore dem until after the election in 2024 when she broke away it cost her everything. dems savaged her. she says people around biden wanted power and kept him running.she says dems only care about party affiliation nothing else.she wanted josh shapiro instead of kamala who she said she was incompetent tammy duckworth said biden should not run later she was claiming he was so good. she says shes not maga but she is conservative,she wants america to be strong and number 1. she hates commies.her book outs a lot of dirty dems unburdened is the name of it. time for driveby jTV. ............................
This is exactly what the Globalists want for America.
Will he be telling us how to chestfeed our kids?? Pete can shut the F___up!!
But think of all the Virtue Points Germany amassed. Isn’t that really what gummit does?
Excellent & insightful Bray - thanks for sharing.
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